Mexico: 'Baby Hit Man' reportedly sent to San Antonio

Updated 8:31 am, Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Edgar Jimenez was 14 when he was captured in December in Cuernavaca before boarding a plane to Tijuana en route to his mother’s home in San Diego, Calif.

Edgar Jimenez was 14 when he was captured in December in Cuernavaca before boarding a plane to Tijuana en route to his mother’s home in San Diego, Calif.

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FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2010 file photo, a journalist interviews Edgar "El Ponchis" Jimenez Lugo while under the custody of Mexican army soldiers in the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico. A Mexican judge on Tuesday sentenced the 14-year-old U.S. citizen to three years in prison for organized crime, homicide, kidnapping, and drug and weapons possession. Authorities say the teenager confessed to working for the Beltran Leyva brothers' cartel and to killing four people whose beheaded bodies were hung from a bridge in the tourist town of Cuernavaca. (AP Photo/Antonio Sierra, File) less

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2010 file photo, a journalist interviews Edgar "El Ponchis" Jimenez Lugo while under the custody of Mexican army soldiers in the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico. A Mexican judge on Tuesday ... more

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(FILE) Picture taken on December 2, 2010 of a Mexican soldier escorting US-born Edgar Jimenez Lugo aka "El Ponchis" (R), then 14 years old, alleged member of the South Pacific drug cartel, in Cuernavaca, Morelos State, Mexico, on December 2, 2010. Jimenez Lugo, convicted at age 14 after working as a hitman for a Mexican drug gang, was released on November 26, 2013, and will return to the United States. AFP PHOTO/David MonroyDavid Monroy/AFP/Getty Images less

(FILE) Picture taken on December 2, 2010 of a Mexican soldier escorting US-born Edgar Jimenez Lugo aka "El Ponchis" (R), then 14 years old, alleged member of the South Pacific drug cartel, in Cuernavaca, ... more

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Mexico: 'Baby Hit Man' reportedly sent to San Antonio

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SAN ANTONIO — A U.S.-born teenager who earned the nickname “Baby Hit Man” working for a Mexican drug cartel is expected to be in San Antonio for rehabilitation, an official there said.

Edgar Jimenez Lugo's family asked that he be returned to the U.S. after serving three years for four homicides in Mexico, said Jorge Messeguer, a top official in the central Mexican state of Morelos.

The Mexican media dubbed Jimenez, who's being sent to a treatment center to help him return to society, “Niño Sicario,” or “Baby Hit Man,” after he told TV cameras he started killing at age 11.